NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE German Emperor, in unveiling a statue to the late Prince Frederick Charles on Thursday, made a short speech which will disturb the French. He is reported to have said that it would be better for the eighteen army corps and the forty-two millions of the German people to be left on the field, than to permit one stone of what they had gained to be taken from them. It was unnecessary and irritating to say this, we think. But we are not sure that it can be called a warlike speech. Every one knows that the German Emperor will not give up Alsace-Lorraine without a very fierce struggle ; and if that be so, the highly coloured form in which the declaration is put, scarcely makes the situation more threatening. Indeed, the more clearly the French realise how hard a job it will be to make Germany relinquish anything, the better for peace.
